5. Food price crises
99 World Nutrition Volume 2, Number 6, June 2011 Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association Published monthly at www.wphna.org The Association is an affiliated body of the International…
6. Nutrition and sustainable development
December blog Claudio Schuftan Rio, then Basel and Berlin. I am just flying back from a Medicus Mundi one day symposium on the right to health in Basel and some…
7. Hunger: the big picture
December blog Claudio Schuftan Ouadougou. I began this month’s column in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. How come I am here? Well, the government here is in the process of finalising guidelines…
8. Food sovereignty
November blog Claudio Schuftan Geneva. Here I am (or was, most recently) in beautiful Geneva, with its serene lake shown above, and home to the World Health Organization. Yes, I…
9. How nutrition improves
October blog Claudio Schuftan I was in Rome in early September. Not to see the Pope or the Piazza d’Espagna. But rather to contribute to our global efforts to bring…
10. MDGs: for whom? and for what?
October blog Claudio Schuftan At the two-thirds point between 2000 and 2015, at a summit at UN headquarters in New York, the United Nations has just completed its assessment and…
11. The right to food and nutrition
September Claudio Schuftan Ho Chi Minh City, This month I celebrate Olivier De Schutter (above left) who since May 2008 has been the United Nations special rapporteur on the right…
12. Philanthropic foundations as masters
September blog Claudio Schuftan Bill Gates in action at the 2008 World Economic Forum, with Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo to his right, and Robert Zoellick of the World Bank two…
13. The MDGs
July blog Claudio Schuftan My column this month is prepared in collaboration with my dear colleague and friend Urban Jonsson. He and I share responsibility for the critique of the…
14. Micronutrients and Protein-energy malnutrition
May blog Claudio Schuftan This month, I pay tribute to two good friends, one of them sadly no longer with us. For those of you active in the 70s and…